About Leap

Leap’s mission is to combat climate change by enabling a reliable electric grid that runs on clean energy. The electric grid is transforming from dirty (but predictable) fossil fuels to clean (but less predictable) renewable energy. To do so, the grid needs more flexible demand and supply to help maintain stability and reliability.

Leap plays a crucial role in opening up wholesale energy markets to all distributed energy resources, enabling our partners to get paid for providing flexibility to the grid. 

Leap is a privately-held tech company with funding from top VCs and well-known energy entrepreneurs. Our core operations are in the San Francisco Bay Area and Utrecht (NL), but we are a distributed workplace with teammates based in Atlanta, Boston, Boulder, Chicago, Austin, and New York City.

About the role

Compensation 

We use a compensation calculator to keep the ranges as equitable as possible.  We start with a benchmark, then include a location factor and your experience level.

Benefits

• 100% Remote work with flexible schedule
• Healthcare + dental + vision coverage for you (and partner or family)
• 401(k) 
• Life, AD&D, and long-term disability insurance
• Paid parental leave 
• Employee Assistance Program
• Unlimited paid time off, holidays (3 weeks minimum/year are encouraged)

Who we are looking for

• We’d love to meet a strategic and tenacious individual who will be responsible for developing North American markets, with a focus on the NYISO, PJM, ISO-NE, and/or and IESO markets. This position will play a key role in the growth of the company.

What you'll do

• Identifying, assessing, and prioritizing the most promising new market and product opportunities for Leap’s virtual power plant (VPP) technology platform. Experience with MISO, SPP, IESO, AESO, Japan, the UK, or European markets is a plus.
• Cultivating relationships and expansion opportunities with Utilities, Retailers,, and other buyers of energy, capacity, and ancillary services North American markets.
• Working across internal teams, as well as with clients and partners, to achieve market entry success.
• Tracking market trends and developing strategies to expand Leap’s presence into new markets. 
• Organizing market and product information to provide input to our product/engineering teams to develop our platform.
• Researching and analyzing information about competitors’ products and services to develop a comprehensive understanding of specific competitor activities and their impact on company strategy.

Qualifications

• Have 1-3 years of experience in wholesale electricity markets, policy, utility demand response programs, and/or new market entry, or working with Distributed Energy Resources.
• Can investigate and synthesize complicated policies and market rules, and effectively communicate key concepts to a variety of stakeholders
• Are opportunity-focused and enjoy working cross-functionally across an organization to achieve consensus and jointly launch new markets
• Are proficient in policy analysis, market research and assessment, and/or data analysis
• Are detail-oriented and can manage multiple tasks and/or projects effectively
• Appreciate an open discussion. Enjoy working collaboratively in a team with a diverse group of talented and fun people, but are also perfectly capable of working autonomously.
• Experience is definitely a plus, but willingness to learn and innovate is a must.

What’s it like to work at Leap?

Product: At our core we are a tech company. We love technical challenges and build things that we are proud of and would like to use ourselves. Everyone is highly involved in building and designing our products, making them extremely valuable and a pleasure to use.

Purpose: Some of us worked in energy before, some of us haven’t. All of us would like to make a difference and do our part in helping the world move towards a more resilient grid run on renewable energy. 

Fun: We work hard, but enjoy our time at work as well as outside of work. With the team spread out over multiple time zones we also embraced flexibility early on, and are focused on results instead of time spent or presence. 

We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity at our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status. We will ensure that individuals with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodation to participate in the job application or interview process, to perform essential job functions, and to receive other benefits and privileges of employment. Please contact us to request accommodation.